The Arya Samaj Movement in South Africa Motilal Banarsidass Gnomic and Didactic Poetry 227

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It could scarcely have been undertaken without the help of Shrivatsa Goswami

The main part of the book presents the final stage in the evolution of polemics against the "naturalization" of caste in the sense of "any attempt to include caste among the things that do not depend or proceed exclusively from human thought and arbitrary conventions

For centuries it has provided a meaningful framework connecting the world of observable phenomena with the transcendental world of ultimate reality

The Arya Samaj Movement in South Africa Motilal Banarsidass Gnomic and Didactic Poetry 227The Arya Samaj movement is essentially a religious institution but became a significant force in India's religious and secular struggle for social and cultural self determination. It's founding in 1875 presaged the creation of independent India in 1947. This work does not attempt a detailed examination of the movement but provides an outline of its growth and philosophy in the light of the work of its founder Swami Dayanand Sarasvati. the complex